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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickl

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. – Elias Canetti

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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates — but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit. – Author unknown

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